Notices by Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx), page 15

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#PracticalPoetry #HappyNewYears

@Gargron I think the other advantage is that you have to make a schema of some type, and that would give new admins some guidance and ideas on what to limit or ban on their servers.

Also, the fact that they could be translated would probably help in some situations.

Of course, you'll always need an "other" for extra stuff.

@viTekiM sounds like an amazing horror game: "Don't Sleep"

The whole game is about you escaping from a monster that is chasing you. Turns out in the end it is Santa trying to give you gifts.

Tried installing my Steam games on a microsd card, and it didn't work. Reformed ext4 and then it did. Turns out that Steam needs to be able to create symbolic links.

#Linux #Ubuntu #Steam

@popey @milan certainty when you consider the entire product there is more to consider than just the license. But here we are just talking about the visualization of the license field. Which is a simpler discussion.

I would agree that making proprietary red isn't fair either, but the western values associated with green are 'good' and 'go', which is saying it something you should do or find positive.

@popey @milan sure, you don't have to make it red. It could be grey for instance. Or desaturated version of the GTK theme's color.

I think the value here is to give a visual signal that free software is better. You don't need to mark proprietary software as 'red' or dangerous, but you can visually promote better choices.

So 'fix' is perhaps wrong. But, I think the visualization can be improved.

@milan good point, I bet @popey might be able to look into getting that fixed.

A fitting tribute to The President. — https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46614138

@tinker I'll definitely consider it, but I'm probably going to wait and see what they actually ship.

They've made some odd choices about actually building a large part of their SW stack from scratch. Which isn't inherently bad, but it also means a lot of work, which could really delay things.

@tinker are you getting one? Would love to play with it.

@kemonine ah, I hadn't thought of that. Haven't used a film camera in a long time.

Can you still get film for it? Do you have to roll your own?

Texas Linux Fest has official dates (May 31-Jun 1) and the CFP is open until the end of February!

Put it on your calendar. Submit your papers. Ask me questions. In which ever order you choose.

https://2019.texaslinuxfest.org/

#texas #linux #conference #community #run

Disturbing quote to finish up this article about data: "You may forget Facebook; it could happen sooner than you expect. But it’s not likely to forget you."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/magazine/what-happens-when-facebook-goes-the-way-of-myspace.html

@vickysteeves I use Unity, but you might check out @elementary Not exactly just a desktop environment, but might fit your needs.

My youngest is learning to read, but not very confident in his abilities. So I told him: "You're a very good reader!"

His retort: "Well, who am I better than then?!?"

My wife has told me that "The President" was not an age appropriate answer.

@n8 oh, I'm wondering if @tinker would be interested in these.

@n8 not sure that I really want it, but I'd love to look at pictures and give them stars :-)

Dude, this is getting out of hand.

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3831-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3840-1/

@RAOF seems like that is so often the case.